On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 6:10 AM, Oliver Boermans<[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/8/2 Paul Joseph Davis <[email protected]>: >> The idea was to remove all partial build products and start from scratch. Is >> it still not working if you re-untar? > > If by re-untar you mean trashing the directory created when I > decompress apache-couchdb-0.9.1.tar.gz (which I have done by double > clicking it in the Finder) and recreating it by doing the same before > running: > > cd apache-couchdb-0.9.1 > ./configure && make && sudo make install > > Then no, it’s still not working after I do that. > > I did it again just now to be sure. > Then attempt to launch: > > $ sudo -i -u couchdb couchdb > sudo: unable to change directory to /usr/local/var/lib/couchdb: No > such file or directory > couchdb: couchdb: is a directory > > Clearly I’m doing something very basically wrong? >
/usr/local/var/lib/couchdb is a directory isn't it? $ sudo su - $ cd /usr/local/var/lib/couchdb Works? Paul
